#19016: Better hash for Element
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       Reporter:  ncohen             |        Owner:
           Type:  defect             |       Status:  needs_work
       Priority:  critical           |    Milestone:  sage-6.10
      Component:  misc               |   Resolution:
       Keywords:                     |    Merged in:
        Authors:  Nils Bruin,        |    Reviewers:
  Vincent Delecroix                  |  Work issues:
Report Upstream:  N/A                |       Commit:
         Branch:  public/19016-bis   |  fcf799ce33270401e9dce7bfcf4f383dbcedc49d
   Dependencies:                     |     Stopgaps:
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Comment (by nbruin):

 Replying to [comment:102 jdemeyer]:
 > This seems like an argument for ''not'' adding the 0 hash to
 `Ideal_generic` then.

 I agree with that. Furthermore, I think we can remove the 0 hash on
 `Ideal_generic` without affecting doctests, so I'd say we should. Let's
 see what Vincent's opinion is.

 > By the way, a small improvement might be to take the hash of the parent
 instead of a constant zero.

 Given that the only possibly legitimate use would be to put ideals from
 the same ring together, I don't think that would be an actual improvement.
 I'd say that 0 would reflect more properly that the hash is worthless. I
 also think we should back up each 0 hash with a ticket to either devise a
 proper hash function or make these unhashable.

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